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MPEG-7 Based Image Retrieval on the World Wide Web
Due to the rapid growth of the number of digital media elements like image, video, audio, graphics on
Internet, there is an increasing demand for effective search and retrieval techniques. Recently, many search
engines have made image search as an option like Google, AlltheWeb, AltaVista, Freenet. In addition to this,
Ditto, Picsearch, can search only the images on Internet. There are also other domain specific search engines
available for graphics and clip art, audio, video, educational images, artwork, stock photos, science and nature
[www.faganfinder.com/img]. These entire search engines are directory based. They crawls the entire Internet and
index all the images in certain categories. They do not display the images in any particular order with respect to
the time and context. With the availability of MPEG-7, a standard for describing multimedia content, it is now
possible to store the images with its metadata in a structured format. This helps in searching and retrieving the
images. The MPEG-7 standard uses XML to describe the content of multimedia information objects. These
objects will have metadata information in the form of MPEG-7 or any other similar format associated with them. It
can be used in different ways to search the objects. In this paper we propose a system, which can do content
based image retrieval on the World Wide Web. It displays the result in user-defined order